Light in August (New York: Smith & Haas, 1932) is
the seventh of William Faulkner’s nineteen novels and the fifth of
fourteen that he set primarily in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County,
Mississippi, the apocryphal town and county he created in his
fiction. Though his longest novel, it took him only six months to
write, from mid-August, 1931, to mid-February, 1932, and another
month to complete the typescript he sent to his agent [Joseph
Blotner, Faulkner: A Biography (1991), 280, 302]. Though
Light in August, like Sanctuary, may appear to be
a more conventional novel than The Sound and the Fury and
As I Lay Dying, Faulkner’s extensive experiments in
multiple first-person n…

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